Hahahaha. Brilliant. |
I enjoyed reading Ryan’s piece, it’s always helpful to get the other side of the story. But this guy doesn’t get a pass from me. Nuzzi was messy af. But Lizza and Nuzzi were both clout-chasers who mutually benefited from each other’s looks, position, and access. Lizza unfortunately miscalculated that Olivia would try to level up eventually; something that was obvious to anybody who knew about the Olberman history. Nuzzi was (is) a creature for whom lifeblood is attention and death is irrelevance. Each jump to next rock was a more powerful guy, no matter how gross. This makes sense when you realize that the guy isn’t a guy, he’s a path to survival. Nuzzi’s writing skills are always presented as some sort of defense of her actions; as if being skilled at something, anything, somehow reorients the moral framework around which choices should be made. She’s a good writer. She also decided rules of journalism didn’t apply to her. That’s a problem. She’s odd person to lionize until you realize that the media folks writing about her in the press, defending her on X, and giving her book deals are men. It sounds too simple and dumb to be an explanation, but everyone still scratches their heads about how Elizabeth Holmes scammed investors out of millions of dollars. No matter how compelling Lizza’s version of of events is, or how true, his piece reads as no more or less interesting than the story of any other guy smarting from losing the girl at the end of the movie. Juxtaposing his history with Nuzzi with the inclusion of his over the top love for his latest girlfriend is like that guy you go out on a date with who can’t stop talking about his ex: “you’re so beautiful! Also my ex was such a B, lemme tell you more about her”. Being betrayed absolutely sucks and I’ve been there. But all of these people suffer from main character syndrome. There’s nothing extraordinary about a middle-aged guy’s 20-something girlfriend figuring out that there was a quicker elevator to the penthouse. Lizza is human, and deserving of empathy. But he ain’t special. My college roommate got dumped for an AP, and we got drunk, stalked her SM, then got up the next day and moved on with our lives. These folks should do the same. |
each other's looks? Are the standards in D.C. that low? |
| But agreed with everything else you said. |
This is like when you repeat something enough you hope it sticks. Her career is fake. She's an industry plant. She doesn't have any writing talent. Her prose is objectively awful; ridiculously cringe and nonsensical babble. It's obvious anything she's ever written that was half-decent was massaged by men she was blowing and other non-credited editors and staff writers. |
Shameless* woman |
Katy Tur was another minx shacking up with old man Olbermann. But now we're supposed to take Tur seriously as a super serious NBC political reporter. Same for Alexi McCammond, who was screwing around with male superiors or whatever and some White House official. Ethics in this industry? Disgusting status- and fame-obsessed strivers all-around. |
Katy Tur, Alexi McCammond and Olivia Nuzzi are all in a room. Are they all threatened by each other and who ends up winning the Old Man Olympics? |
It’s called basic ethics. What is wrong with you? She and the gross old men that used her are all corrupt and immoral. |
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Something that was a little unclear from the Lizza piece. Did they stay together after the Mark Sanford thing or was that right before the RFK jr scandal?
Also men are so gross. All it takes is a few messages from a mid blonde. |
Also what's missing is how he/they afforded a multi-million dollar pad in Georgetown on DC journalist salaries. |
All of the gross old men who used her for attention and sex are still in their positions of prominence, but she's supposed to be jobless and out in the cold forever? Go suck Olbermann's left nutsack. |
He's a money-hungry chump who was happy to live off the proceeds of his girlfriend's success with older men and then wants to play victim now that their scheme is public. A complete loser. |
Admittedly I didn't read all of this, but if you agree that Ryan Lizza is a nasty, greedy little b-tch for trying to turn his ex-girlfriend's saga into a come-up for himself while pretending to be above it all, then we agree. |
Oh yes, we concur. I loved the part where he describes her angling for a wedding while he politely demures. Nothing says “I never wanted her” like a long-form article spilling all the deets a full year later. |